Influence of individuals
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- Created on: 20-04-20 05:39
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- David Livingstone
- Was a doctor in South Africa but then started exploring the hinterlands
- Gave lectures at Cambridge university
- Sent 2000 letters to England while exploring Zambize river
- Recieved government funding to establish commerce and christian influence in places he visited
- He dissapeared but was later found by Henry Stanley. He was considered a martyr for the British Empire
- John Kirk
- Botanist, doctor and explorer who went with Livingstone on the Zambize river
- He analysed aquatic animals which he sent back to Britain
- Returned to Africa in 1868 as a medical officer and stayed in Zanzibar as a diplomat
- Sir Richard Burton
- Linguistic scholar who explored mainly sacred islamic land
- Went to Zanzibar and got malaria and was forced to go home
- Produced 43 volumes of what he explored. 5 books described West African sacrifice, cannibalism and murder
- John Hanning Speke
- Joined Richard Burton in Somaliland exploration
- Found the origin of the Nile river
- One of the first to reach lake Tanganyika
- Discovered a lake in which he called it lake Victoria after the queen
- After being doubted by Burton he was found dead in what people believed was a suicide
- Christian missionaries
- Helped open up territories for Britain as they could get passed the frontier and build influence from central areas
- Established links and trusting relationships with the indigenous community
- Gave imperial protection
- Believed in world wide christian conversion
- Influence of traders
- Cecil Rhodes
- Diamond magnate
- Cape colony politician
- William Mackinnon
- Built up commercial interests in his navigation company
- George Goldie
- Palm oil business man
- Cecil Rhodes
- David Livingstone
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